Senior Expert Labour Relations – m/f/x
ZEISS Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: München • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Senior
About the role
- Ensuring the strategic development of innovative and needs-oriented working conditions.
- Providing solution-oriented, holistic advice on complex co-determination and employee representation matters to the business, the HR community and at the interface with works councils and trade unions.
- Strategically analysing HR trends and future topics with regard to co-determination, and steering and implementing these initiatives for ZEISS in Germany.
- Advising segment and SBU leadership as well as HR interfaces on complex collective employment-law issues.
- Drafting and negotiating (group-wide) works agreements and collective bargaining agreements.
- Standardising and providing templates/framework agreements for concluding collective-law arrangements at local sites.
- Supporting and leading the Germany-wide Community of Practice Labour Relations.
Requirements
- Completed degree in law or business administration with a focus on employment law or human resources management.
- 5+ years of experience as an in-house expert on co-determination and policy matters in the HR function of an international corporation, in a trade union, or in an employers' association.
- Proven, extensive knowledge of individual and collective employment law, familiarity with working alongside employee representative bodies, and strong negotiation skills.
- Knowledge of collective bargaining agreements, preferably those applicable to the metal and electrical industries.
- Strong conceptual abilities, analytical thinking, and a pronounced understanding of economic contexts and commercial thinking.
- Decisiveness, strong implementation skills, and problem-solving competence.
- Ability to explain complex matters in an audience-appropriate manner, outstanding stakeholder management, and project management experience.
- Strong team, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Good command of English and confident use of MS Office.
Benefits
- Diversity is part of ZEISS. We welcome your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion or worldview, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
employment lawcollective employment lawnegotiation skillscollective bargaining agreementsco-determinationpolicy mattersproject managementanalytical thinkingeconomic contextscommercial thinking
Soft skills
decisivenessimplementation skillsproblem-solving competencestakeholder managementcommunication skillsteam skillsconceptual abilitiesaudience-appropriate explanationholistic adviceleadership
Certifications
degree in lawdegree in business administration